The worst of all is that I suspected nothing. She said that she had been feeling anxious since Christmas Eve; however I failed to notice this. All I saw was a little girl who done a little too much shopping. She hadn’t always been like that; when we really needed to she could save better than anyone. It was around that time when Nora’s friend Kristina came to visit. She was so captivated by Ms Linde’s lifestyle, being independent; I believe that was the first thing to trigger Nora’s departure. Dr Rank also ‘seemed to be rather distant the next few days as well, it was not till I was told that I knew his terrible fate. While Dr Rank, Ms Linde and I went off to discuss her employment, Nora had stayed home, I am not entirely sure what happened next, I believe that Krogstad paid a visit to Nora and blackmailed her into trying to convince me to keep that vile Krogstad after my promotion. She actually tried to deceive me even more. I have just realized what wrong she has done me, she tied to me and tried to manipulate me, luckily, I would have nothing of it. The next day I was wondering what on earth was wrong with her; she seemed so scared and nervous, I see now why she insisted so much on his employment, oh such a fool I was! She made me so furious that out of rage I sent his dismissal letter as soon as possible.
And, Oh! When she insisted I teach her the dance that night, I was so naïve to believe that she was some hopeless child, who was unaware of what was happening in the world. When it had been me all this time, the hopeless one, completely unaware of the deceit of others (loved or otherwise). Here I thought she was just being ridiculous and childish when she danced, now I see she was so full of emotion, she didn’t know what to do.
The next few days were one of the worst days of my life, it does not seem as though it was only yesterday, the day of the dance. The day of revelation, the first to be reveled was that my good friend, Dr Rank was to die soon, this came a shock to me as he seemed quite well. However, the worst was yet to come, I opened Krogstad’s first letter. It reveled to me all of Nora’s lies and deceits, I was outraged, how could she have done this…to me. She did not think how this would have bens en as a husband who could not control his spend-thrift wife, and so lead to dept. all I could think about was how Nora was hypocrite and a liar, she had ruined his happiness, and so I decided that she should not be able to care for our children as she would not be fit to do so.
However, soon after the first letter came another, this letter brought hope and joy back to me. It was from Krogstad stating how he has given up, and with the letter, the contract signed by Nora. I was so happy, now we could all go back to how it used to be, how it should be. However, Nora would have none of it, she refused to come back, and she said that despite our eight years of marriage, we do not understand one another, by this I was shocked. She declared that I have treating her like a “doll” to be played with and admired. And so she decides to leave me, declaring that she must “make sense of herself and everything around her.” She walked out, slamming the door behind her.” She had always said that she had been waiting all these years for me to do something glorious, like how she did for me; I could not see and still cannot see what this something glorious is. But, I would like to find it so that I could have my true joy back, my little skylark.
Statement of intent
This assignment is based on Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”, a play written in 1879, it is a realistic stage drama, it depicts ordinary life as it is, not as one would like it to be. Because Ibsen wanted to make his plays straightforwardly realistic, he wrote the dialogue in simple, everyday, middle-class language rather than elegant, lofty language characteristic of romantic plays. In most of the play one can say that who the audience knows more about would be Nora, we also get how it is she feels by reading the play, I believe that, that is most probably the reason why the play is regarded as a very feminist play. That is why for this assignment I decided to try and tell the story from Torvald’s point of view, by writing it in a diary form I am able to maybe connect or bring out certain aspects of Torvald less obvious in the play.
Through doing so, I hope to demonstrate Torvald’s true nature, as well as capture maybe some of Ibsen’s original themes and characteristics of the play, such as the way which the characters interact and talk amongst themselves. I would also like to show the way in which the characters interact with each other, even though I am doing a diary entry I am still able to show the connection through Torvald looking back on the time before.
To improve:
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Need to make specific points in your S of I, showing where/why you have put things in, based on your reading of the play. You will need to refer both to your text and the play, to support these points you make.
